In a nutshell Despite appearing entirely different, Buddhist Jhāna meditation and Christian speaking in tongues both involve ...

As for Nat worship, the people, in spite of the king's edicts, went on worshiping the Nats, and Anawrahta finally decided to bring them over into Buddhism. The figures of the thirty-six lords were ...

The religious monument is the centerpiece of a $100 million expansion of the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center, one of Cowtown’s largest sites of Buddhist worship. If the revamp is realized ...

Buddhists chant alone or together. If together, they chant in unison. Chanting is not like hymns sung to worship God (for example, in the Christian faith). It helps Buddhists to enter into a calm ...

Nestled in the serene village of Chandavaram in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district stands South India’s largest Buddhist ...

A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern regi ...

It makes me feel peaceful whenever I get here. It’s a good feeling to have when I worship. Whenever Buddhists enter the temple, we remove our shoes and hats to show respect. Inside, there is ...

Minister of Religious Affairs, Nasaruddin Umar, has urged the Buddhist community to focus on the sacredness aspect during the ...

When all progressive political thought have acknowledged Bodh Gaya’s identity as a Buddhist shrine, what stops political ...